"For where the alchemist's dream was of turning lead to precious gold, the translator's dream is that he may somehow be kept from reducing gold to common lead." ("Translator's Note" to More's Utopia. Norton Critical Edition. xii.)「という…
"It is easy to hand over one's vices to a man racially and culturally different; but nothing is as difficult to impart as a keen interest in the sports and amusements of other people." (Malinowski. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. 466)「…
"from [the cruel superstition] arose the most enlightened nations while no nation in the world was ever founded on atheism." (Vico. The New Science. 518.) This statement (at least the latter part) sounds true, but is this really the case?…
Benjaminian Nietzshce?"...we are the outcome of earlier generations...of their aberrations, passions, and errors, and indeed of their crimes...If we condemn these aberrations and regard ourselves as free of them, this does not alter the fa…
"The actual pressure must be made more pressing by adding to it consciousness of pressure, the shame must be made more shameful by publicizing it." (Marx. A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right.) 「いま現にある圧力は…
Probably for the first time I found it's extremely depressing to read and grade students' papers. I almost felt guilt in reading poor papers: "is this all because I didn't do what I should have done?" I believe I did a decent service to th…